Plant Academy: The Cookbook: Techniques, Ingredients & Recipes for Vibrant Vegan Flavours

PLANT ACADEMY: THE COOKBOOK is theinspirationalcookery manual for tasty and beautiful vegan food, teaching the essential ingredients and key techniques you need to create delicious and stunning plant-based dishes.

Lauren Lovatt, visionary founder of pioneering culinary schoolPlant Academy and author of Mind Food, shares her unique teaching expertise, demonstrating that whole-food, plant-based cooking is not only rich in textures and flavour profiles but also refined and appetising on the plate.

Focusing on over 50 techniques, including how to make nut milks and cheeses, how to handle ferments and how to create intriguing flavour and texture profiles, this contemporary handbook is a must-have for anyone who wants to elevate their plant-based cooking. Starting with the staple ingredients that should be in every vegan’s pantry, the book moves on to explain all the elements of building a successful plant-based dish, from curating creative combinations to refining the way in which you plate up.

Featuring over 40 recipes, including:
- Seasonal poke bowl
- Massaged kale
- Fermented ginger cheesecake
- Wild Rosti
- Adaptogen adobo
- Courgette cannelloni

With contributions from Plant Academy experts such as celebrated Michelin-green-starred chef Richard Buckley, plant-based food consultant Carolina Chinea, and award-winning author Rachel De Thample alongside striking photography from Sara Kiyo Popowa (@shisodelicious) and delightful illustrations from Sophie Dunster (@Gung_ho_london), this innovative, inspiring cookbook is sure to get you fired up for plant-based living.

Lauren Lovatt is a vegan chef and pioneer in the mood food movement with radical supper club, Feed Your Mind Candy. She chefs at hipster plant-based culinary academy and restaurant Plant Hub, in East London, with the visionary likes of eco-chef and Guardian columnist Tom Hunt, and zero-waste chef Douglas McMaster. Lauren trained in LA and NYC, led the PlantLab Barcelona School and ran Asparagasm in the Cotswolds. She runs popular festival events at Glastonbury and Shambhala, and is regularly interviewed on how to express, support and inspire better mental health through plant-based, far out food. Lauren has taught ’mind candy’ on retreats in Bali, Spain and in the States, and has set up the first vegan kitchen in Paris, at Hoy hotel.